Production capacity of 63,000 barrels per day / Wintershall share: 20 percent

Stavanger. With production of the Knarr field, Wintershall is strengthening its position as one of the major producers on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Discovered in 2008, the field has been developed at a water depth of about 400 meters with two facilities on the sea bed and a floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO). The FPSO has a production capacity of 63,000 barrels per day.

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There is no gas for consumers without infrastructure. With the installation of the first pipes for the Polarled Pipeline, the development of the Aasta Hansteen region in the Norwegian Sea is making considerable progress. Polarled is set to transport gas from the Aasta Hansteen field to the Western coast of Norway. The installation of the 480-kilometre-long pipeline is scheduled to be completed by the end of August. Wintershall has shareholdings in both Polarled (13.2%) and Aasta Hansteen (24%). Find out more here: bit.ly/1CHDtMN

The sun rises, a new week begins! Also here in the Siberian tundra near the Achimov formation, where Wintershall produces condensate and natural gas. In that sense: We wish you a sunny start into the week as well! #monday

To move house is never easy. Especially when you are a drilling rig. Weighing 11.000 tons and with a height of 75m the ENSCO 121 drilling rig needs two ships to tow it. The rig searches for oil and gas in the southern North Sea for Wintershall - here you see how it was transported from Rotterdam to Denmark last year.

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Spring started last Friday in many countries all over the world. After watching the solar eclipse on Friday, our Wintershall-to-go mug now snuggles in our garden and is warming up in the sun. In that sense: We wish you all a sunny start into the week! #monday #wintershalltogo

Here comes the sun… Our globetrotting Wintershall-to-go cup also took part in the Solar Eclipse today – and didn’t need any glasses! We hope that you enjoyed the special moment wherever you took part in it. Have a nice weekend. #wintershalltogo #solareclipse

Wintershall made a profit of more than one billion euros in 2014, for the fourth year in a row. The net income after taxes and minority interests was 1.464 billion euros (2013: 1.730). “Despite the low oil price, in 2014 we achieved the second-best result in the company’s history,” says the Wintershall Chairman of the Executive Board, Rainer Seele.

The good result was delivered by a diversified portfolio, low costs for production and reserves replenishment and attractive technology and exploration projects. “This enables us to make significant contributions to the results of the BASF Group even when the oil price is low,” explains Seele. www.wintershall.com/facts2014

Knarr field in the Norwegian North Sea starts production. With a working interest of 20%, Wintershall is strengthening its position as one of the major producers on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Get more facts: bit.ly/1ADSQRL (PIcture: Image courtesy of BG Group)

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Wintershall is an internationally active oil and gas company with operations in four continents. We look back on 120 years of drilling experience. For more than 80 years, we have been actively involved in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas. The company employs about 2,500 people from 40 countries. We are a subsidiary of BASF, the largest chemical company in the world.